The Educator's Notebook

Should Fall Classes Begin With Next Year’s Content, Or Picking Up From The Spring?
Education Dive - 4/30/20

“Sixty-five percent of teachers in a new nationwide poll favor starting next year with ‘"regularly scheduled instruction” over other options, such as revisiting concepts from the end of this semester, extending next school year or offering students the chance to repeat a grade… The results show administrators — who made up about 12% of the 5,555 respondents — think beginning the next year with April 2020 concepts is the best strategy for addressing learning loss due to school closures. Advocates and policymakers, about 250 respondents in the sample, agreed with administrators.”
“College Campuses Must Reopen In The Fall. Here’s How We Do It.”
New York Times - 4/26/20

“Institutions should develop public health plans now that build on three basic elements of controlling the spread of infection: test, trace and separate.”

An In-Depth Look At The Summit Learning Platform
Hechinger Report - 5/2/20
Why Zoom Makes You Tired
New York Times - 4/29/20

“The problem is that the way the video images are digitally encoded and decoded, altered and adjusted, patched and synthesized introduces all kinds of artifacts: blocking, freezing, blurring, jerkiness and out-of-sync audio. These disruptions, some below our conscious awareness, confound perception and scramble subtle social cues. Our brains strain to fill in the gaps and make sense of the disorder, which makes us feel vaguely disturbed, uneasy and tired without quite knowing why.”
“What's Missing From Zoom Reminds Us What It Means To Be Human”
Steve Blank - 4/27/20
Student Makes Minecraft Version Of The UPenn Campus
EdSurge - 4/27/20
More On The Science Of Zoom Fatigue
National Geographic - 4/24/20

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Camera Tips To Look And Sound Your Best On Zoom
LinkedIn - 4/1/20

“Position you laptop or web camera at eye level. Turn off unflattering top lights to avoid dark eye sockets… Position yourself as far from the background as possible…”

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